Bootstrapping an EdTech Venture to $6M, Ready to Scale with AI: Daniel Santos, CEO of Prepory (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Online’s fine. I’m not necessarily thinking that you’re already on AI in 2016–17, because that’s definitely not the time when AI was as pervasive as it is today. So, let’s go back to 2016–17. Tell me more about how the business was progressing. How many schools were you catering to in 2016–17? How

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Bootstrapping an EdTech Venture to $6M, Ready to Scale with AI: Daniel Santos, CEO of Prepory (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. Let’s go back to this point where you have three high schools that you’re working with to validate your business model. How much were they willing to pay you?

Bootstrapping an EdTech Venture to $6M, Ready to Scale with AI: Daniel Santos, CEO of Prepory (Part 1)

This story is a great example of an EdTech company that has built a validated, bootstrapped, profitable business that can potentially be scaled using AI.

Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, what gave you confidence that you would be able to solve this problem and build a product? Did you have an architecture already laid out? Did you have the product design already in place?

Building a Venture Scale AI Developer Tool Company: Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you quit and then start or did you start while you still had your job? How did you get started?

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Schmaier, CEO of Vlocity (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In general then, you’re saying that in all your use cases in all the different sectors where you’ve built solutions, it is either Siebel replaced or a custom-built replacement. David Schmaier: There are other providers we replace like Amdocs and other older, crummy systems. I would say it’s either industry on premise or

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Imagination Engines

Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI) is a rapidly expanding company based upon a new and patented artificial intelligence paradigm called the “Creativity Machine,” wherein artificial neural networks autonomously engage in brainstorming sessions with one another to invent new ideas and plans of action. People such as Dennis Bushnell, NASA Langley’s chief scientist, have called this idea

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Forbes Column 2009: A Time For AI

Zero In poses the question, is it finally A Time For AI?